Rice Stuffed Zucchini Casserole Recipes

STUFFED ZUCCHINI CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees (175 degrees C). Grease or spray a 13x9 inch baking dish.
• Cut the zucchini in half lengthwise. With a spoon, scoop out the seeds. Chop and reserve about 3/4 of the seeds for the stuffing. In a medium bowl, mix together the ground beef, sausage, chopped onion, bread crumbs, egg and the reserved zucchini seeds. Place the meat mixture equally into all of the zucchini halves; mixture should be piled up over the top. Place the filled zucchini halves into the prepared baking dish.
• In a bowl, stir together the crushed tomatoes, tomato soup, and water. Spoon the tomato mixture over the filled zucchini, liberally. Bake in the preheated oven for approximately 45 minutes. You may want to place foil or a cookie sheet underneath the baking dish because it tends to bubble over and splash.

BROWN RICE STUFFED ZUCCHINI

Steps:

• Trim zucchinis and cut in half lengthwise. Using a spoon, carefully scoop out the zucchini pulp leaving the shells about 1/4 inch thick and set aside.
• Roughly chop zucchini pulp.
• Saute onions, pepper, and garlic in the olive oil until the onions are tender and translucent, about 5 minutes.
• Add zucchini pulp and pecans and continue to saute about 3 minutes.
• Add tomato, rice, thyme, salt and pepper, and stir gently to combine all the ingredients.
• Stuff reserved zucchini halves with rice mixture and top with the mozzarella and parmesan cheeses.
• Place zucchinis in a small, shallow casserole dish and cover with aluminum foil.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
• Remove foil, and return to oven for about 10 minutes, or until tops are lightly browned and bubbly.

RICE & SAUSAGE STUFFED ZUCCHINI

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Brown sausage til fully cooked, remove from heat.
• Mix in rice, tomatoes, onion, cumin, turmeric, and parsley.
• Cut zucchini lengthwise and scrape out seeds and some of the flesh with a spoon.
• Fill zucchini with sausage rice mixture.
• Bake for 40 min or until zucchini is tender.
• To speed things up, you may boil or microwave zucchini to precook.
• Garnish with parsley and green onion.